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ilana enoukov

Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up - 0 views

www.1stwebdesigner.com/...learning-web-design-30-days

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  • Why You Should Get Started with HTML and CSS
  • HTML is the structure
  • CSS is basically giving that structure a style.
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  • 2012 was a great year for the “online education” industry. There were a lot of new startups to really help you learn web design. Some of them are: Codecademy Udacity Mozilla Developer Network Udemy Of course, you always have 1stWebDesigner and some of its really amazing articles, such as: Basic Visual Web Design Mistakes Learn Web Design – Quit College (really good advice there, by the way) Call to Action – Web Design Usability
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Resources to start learning HTML/CSS. All free, and all simple for those just starting out with coding.
  • Consistency is the key when getting started with web design. Are you learning everyday? Are you applying whatever new concepts you learn at least three times a week? Learning a little bit everyday is way better than covering a lot of material in just one day of the week.
ilana enoukov

What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...s-good-and-bad-web-design.html

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  • Bad design can be infuriating, inconvenient or damaging in any field.
  • a well-designed Web site needs to deliver the same things as most other examples of good design by fulfilling its intended function efficiently and engagingly.
  • A common mistake is to prioritize style over substance
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      An example of this is animation ; though it looks great it takes ages to upload, thus making the visitor furious
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  • principal problem with many Web sites is that their designers were neither rigorous nor imaginative enough in planning the way we will navigate them
  • If you find information swiftly and easily on a Web site, its designer has succeeded. But if you need to click on an inordinate number of buttons and links, or dither over what to do next, the designer has failed
  • Amazon’s site scores highly for navigational efficiency, but poorly in terms of the second criterion of good Web design, because it is far from engaging.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Great relevant example of what author is trying to prove. 
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    The good, the bad, and the worse of web design
Elaine Leung

Best HTML5 website examples of designs with HTML5 - 0 views

www.awwwards.com/html5

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  • Elaine Leung on 08 Apr 14
     
    With the overdue update to HTML5, many designers have already opted to use the newest version of the markup language. Awwwards is a website that collects the best web designs from web designers, developers, and agencies in the world through an evaluation system. This link shows some of the best uses of HTML5 in web design, to date.
Elaine Leung

18 pivotal web design trends for 2014 - 0 views

econsultancy.com/...tal-web-design-trends-for-2014

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  • Elaine Leung on 08 Apr 14
     
    Web design is like fashion. One must understand the upcoming trends to be able to produce beautiful designs. This like shows some up-and-coming design trends for 2014. Recurring themes are HTML5 and 'less-is-more'.
ilana enoukov

The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs - noupe - 0 views

www.noupe.com/...dly-aesthetic-web-designs.html

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  • Great graphics. Beautiful typography. Clean design. These are all things designers typically think of when creating stunning websites
  • In terms of development and coding there are details as well as tricks that can be used that really take a website from 0 to 60 in seconds
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Negative space, layout, cleanliness, attention to detail
  • he most important thing you must do as a designer is figure out your target audience and figure out what the purpose of the website is (I,e., is it to sell or is it to inform?)
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  • The trick though, is to not get SO outside the box that the website fails to make sense or lose sight of it’s purpose.
  • challenge yourself to be bold and forward thinking when it comes to design.
  • Always be on the lookout for fresh new ideas and see what people are doing
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Everything is a remix of something else. Observing other people's work will improve your own creativity
Mohammad Amir

Augmented Reality TV System Mixes Programming and Web Content - 1 views

mashable.com/...augmented-television

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  • Mohammad Amir on 11 Feb 14
     
    New start-up combines web content with television programming
Shalyn Millstone

Guide To Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online - 0 views

publicdomainreview.org/ing-public-domain-works-online

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  • Shalyn Millstone on 06 Feb 14
     
    The public domain is when a work, such as a song or photograph, is available to the public. This means that it is not subject to copyright anymore. For those people who are interested in seeking out works that have entered the public domain, this article is very useful. This guide discusses leads on public domain works, online collections of public domains, as well as the legal aspect of the public domain.
Shalyn Millstone

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained - 1 views

www.templetons.com/...copymyths.html

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  • Shalyn Millstone on 06 Feb 14
     
    This article written by Brad Templeton outlines 10 myths about copyright that people read on the web. It is a very useful article for those who are not sure about the general rules of copyright, as well as what they can and cannot do in regards to copyright.
Claudia Yung

Spur - A fun and easy way to critique a webpage. - 0 views

www.spurapp.com

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  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A site that allows people to critique their website through various tools provided in the app. There are seven tools. For example; One is Grayscale, which makes your webpage black and white to see if the design still works. This helps a person to evaluate their website's design effectiveness.
ilana enoukov

Ukraine And The Stage For Social Protests: When Familiar Visuals Go Viral - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...protests-when-visuals-go-viral

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  • social familiarity
  • both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
  • Thanks to the startups and digital entrepreneurs of this last generation, we are all minor league auteurs or videographers, used to framing the shot, creating more drama, working the lighting.
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      The power of social media. Everyone is a storyteller, and the simplicity and availability of electronics, social media, and the world wide web, makes it possible for anybody to be a relevant news anchor.
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  • long-running debate in some wired intellectual circles about whether social media powers revolutions, whether Twitter or Facebook really assist movements – and on the other side, whether digital technologies now help malign governments in sniffing out and crushing dissent
  • Of course the networks matter – because they always have
  • Twitter isn’t a traditional broadcast company; there’s no editor-in-chief who can be bought or pressured
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Interesting point about Twitter becoming a replacement for traditional news outlets like television and radio. Had similar discussion in class.
  • They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
  • we can instinctively understand the smaller scale conflict against a familiar backdrop in the same way we can grasp what happened at the Boston Massacre or even Lexington and Concord versus how Washington conducted the siege at Yorktown. And the visuals – really the currency of social media – have that quality of being instantly understood.
  • What’s different is speed (no wait for the 11 pm news) and the ability of everyone to share those images, along with comments and outrage
  • “Facebook ‘likes’ are often ridiculed as meaningless, but they can make a person realize that their social network feels the same as they do—and that’s a socially and politically powerful thing.”
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
  • ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
     
    When social movement meets social media
Michael Tran

6 Tips on Choosing a Proper Template for Your Website - 0 views

www.motocms.com/...choose-proper-website-template

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  • Each kind of a website has its own peculiarities. A common mistake in web design community is to ignore the specificity of a website.
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      Michael Tran on 11 Mar 14
       
      A lot of people pick a template because of how it looks but certain templates don't work for certain kinds of sites. An online shop for example shouldn't have a template that was originally designed for a fashion blog for example.
  • In order to help people that want to create their own website at any cost, the designers came with a great solution: website templates. A template is a structure that needs small customizations, especially for personalizing it, and after finishing these it may be uploaded.
  • Tip #2: Choose the template you need but not the one you just visually like
Tracy Ta

Awwwards - 0 views

www.awwwards.com

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  • Tracy Ta on 08 Apr 14
     
    This website showcases the best designed and developed websites in the world.They aim to discover, recognize, and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers, and agencies who create unique digital experiences that are useful, innovative, intuitive, and beautiful.
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